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Juliana de Beleknapp (Belknap), wife of Robert de Beleknapp (Belknap). de Beleknapp...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/95/4704

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This record is about the Juliana de Beleknapp (Belknap), wife of Robert de Beleknapp (Belknap). de Beleknapp... dating from [1390] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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SC 8/95/4704
Date
[1390]
Description
Petitioners
Juliana de Beleknapp (Belknap), wife of Robert de Beleknapp (Belknap).
Name(s)
de Beleknapp (Belknap), Juliana
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
Juliana, wife of Robert de Beleknapp, states that her husband has lost all his possessions and been banished, leaving her and five children in England, and that he has nothing to live on except an annuity of £40 from his former lands. Now these have mostly been sold, and she cannot raise this annuity. She requests a inquiry into the sale of these lands, and that certain lands, entailed on the heirs of Robert's body, and others which she holds jointly with him, to the value of that sum, might be reserved and granted to her in wardship for the term of Robert's life, in compensation for the annuity. She also requests £10 worth of tenements of her inheritance, for her sustenance and that of her children.
Nature of endorsement
The King wills that the wives and other relatives of those who were justices and banished and are now in Ireland are to have at farm the lands and tenements which belonged to the said justices and have not been sold, up to the sum which is ordained by parliament for the sustenance of the same justices, notwithstanding any letter patent made to any other, to have the aforesaid lands and tenements at farm. And those who will have the said lands and tenements at farm in this way are to have an allowance in their farm for the aforesaid sums. And if the said unsold lands and tenements are not sufficient for such sums, the King wills that a fixed appointment and assignment might be made by his council as to how and in what way, and where and in what place, the said former justices, and each of them, may have good and swift payment of the sums assigned to them in this way by the said parliament for their sustenance.
Places mentioned
Ireland.
People mentioned
Robert de Beleknapp (Belknap), justice.
Note
The grant for the sustenance of Robert de Beleknapp (CPR 1388-92 p. 231) is dated 20 February 1390, and the grant for his wife's sustenance is dated 15 March 1390. Both would seem to be the result of this petition.
Related material

For transcript, see no.2 of PRO 31/7/111

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 850
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Patent Rolls, Ric II, vol. IV, 1388-1392, (Public Record Office, 1902), p.231 (grant to the petitioner and others of certain lands at farm for the term of the life of Robert de Beleknapp; and grant of the residue of the income of these lands, beyond £40 annually, to the petitioner for her sustenance)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9149255/

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